Dai Na Hino Maru

The Dai Na Hino Maru was built in 1935 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for Nihon Shokuen. During the war she used as an island transport for the Japanese Imperial Navy. The freighter was sunk on 1 MAY 1944 during a second set of aircraft carrier raids on the Japanese base at Truk. This raid was one of many that continued as smaller follow-ups after Operation Hailstone until end of the war.

The Dai Na Hino Maru was attacked by aircraft which bombed, rocketed and strafed her. The force of the explosions left her totally destroyed from the inside out. Resting on a sloping bottom, the picturesque fore gun symbol of Truk Lagoon, has now fallen, lying on her keel in 30 fsw off Uman Island.